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SERENA WILLIAMS’S decision not to defend her Australian Open title four months after giving birth to her first child had nothing to do with merely being able to play at Melbourne Park, she revealed today.
The seven-time Australian Open champion confirmed that she wouldn’t attempt to defend the title she won here last year, saying she wasn’t convinced she could win it.
Williams played in an exhibition tournament last weekend in Abu Dhabi to test her match condition and indicated after her loss to French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko that she might not travel to Melbourne.
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tennis icon set to become oldest singles competitor at Flushing Meadows since 1981 after receiving wild-card entry — yet another historic moment in a career already filled with them, writes HOWARD FENDRICH
British star can take inspiration from 2021 clash in today’s rematch on Centre court
Difficult run ahead for world number four on collision course with Djokovic and Sinner